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MUSCA 2. Oblonga minor, ccendeo nitide virens, r ^«- ] The <*reen Wood- Fly 



tre albido maculis i-irgatis notato. 





This i§ a very beautiful infect ; but it is very rare, and only met with in the 

 moll lonely woods. I have feen it once or twice in St. Marys. 



MUSCA 3. Minor domefiica. 



The Houfe Fly. 



This infect is no where more common or troublefome than in J 



but 



feldom ftirs at n 



burn themfelves in the flam 



ght, though they fwarm about 



die by day, and frequently 



& 



MUSCA 4. Major nigra bumbilans 



fefcentibus, 



MUSCA 5. Major fubvariegala oculis & ano rufej 



tibus, virgis binis aureis infronte. 



Both thefe fpecies are very frequent in J 



Th 



larg 



black 



buzzing Fly. 



The large ftriped 

 buzzing Fly. 



nd generally very bufy about 



forts of meat, which they frequently infect. They 



both Vivip 



ires, and 

 difcharge a great number of maggots at a time ; but thefe are always fmooth and 



fkinny, which fh 



them to be different from 



whofe maggots are generally hairy 



ge buzzing flies of Europ 



CULEX 1. Minima variegata, cruribus fere cequalibtis. 



The Sand-Fly. 



Thefe little infects are very common in J 

 exceeding troublefo 



when 



feafons 



clof< 



They bite very {harp, and 



b 



they feldom go into the 



bouies, keeping generally about the fhores and open fandy bays, where they 

 y bufy every calm evening.- 



CULEX 2. Gracilis a ureo var iegat a. The golden Gnat. 



This beautiful fp 



s 



very rare in ¥ 



about the fize with the com 



mon 



fort 



nd ftriped in the fame man 



but the ftreaks are all y 



I hav 



obferved above three or four of them during my reiidence in that iliand 



CULEX 3. Gracilis albo variegata, antennis pinnatis. The Mujkeeto. 



Thefe infects are very common in all parts of the Weft-Indies, within the tropics : 

 they bite very fharp, and are the more troublefome as they generally feek for food 

 by night, and frequently difturb people's reft as much by their buzzing noife as 

 they do by their bites j which obliges the inhabitants of our colonies, in thofe parts, 

 to hang nets over all their beds. The fkin commonly fwells or blifters wherever 

 thefe creatures bite ; efpecially in new comers, to whom they are moft troublefome, 

 and in whom the bites frequently occafion very obftinate fores: but, in fuch ha- 

 bits, we generally obfcrve a natural eruption mixed with the real bites, which is 

 commonly, tho' erroneoufly, taken for them, and the principal fcurce of thofe ul- 



cers. The inhabitants of the low and woody parts of Jamaica are often oblig 

 raife a fmoke about their doors in the evening, to quiet thefe troublefome in 

 which, it feems, it does very effectually: in this they follow the example of the 

 Laplanders. See Lin. Flo. Lap. p. 368. 



ed to 

 fects, 





CULEX 4. Major torpida fufc 



The Loggerhead Mujk 



This infect is much larger than either of the others, and very common amoi 

 Mangroves, in moft marfhy places by the fea-fide. They bite very lharp, b 



fo unactive that they are generally taken or killed before 



fpecies of the Gnat lay their their eggs 



yq 



All thele 



which the young ones are ob- 

 served 





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